This week I'm featuring The Wide Starlight by Nicole Lesperance. It's such an emotional, heartbreaking, yet beautiful read. I loved it.
Never whistle at the Northern Lights, the story goes, or they'll sweep down from the sky and carry you away.
Sixteen-year-old Eline Davis knows it's true. She was there ten years ago, on a frozen fjord in Svalbard, Norway, the night her mother whistled at the lights and then vanished.
Now Eli lives an ordinary life with her dad on Cape Cod. But when the Northern Lights are visible over the Cape for just one night, she can't resist the possibility of seeing her mother again. So she whistles—and it works. Her mother appears, with snowy hair, frosty fingertips and a hazy story of where she's been all these years. And she doesn't return alone.
Along with Eli's mother's reappearance come strange, impossible things. Narwhals swimming in Cape Cod Bay, meteorites landing in Eli's yard, and three shadowy princesses with ominous messages. It's all too much, too fast, and Eli pushes her mother away. She disappears again—but this time, she leaves behind a note that will send Eli on a journey across continents, to the northern tip of the world:
Find me where I left you.
Book Beginnings
You're not allowed to be born or to die on Svalbard.
Friday 56
Mormor isn't in her apartment when my dad and I stumble downstairs the next morning, jet-lagged and off-kilter, but there's a steaming loaf of fresh bread on her kitchen table beside a plate of brown cheese. Tucked under the plate is a note:
Help yourselves. Don't share with the newlyweds.
What have you been reading lately?
I did like The Hazel Wood and its sequel, so The Wide Starlight sounds like my kind of book. I'm going to add this one to my TBR list.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I hope you enjoy it if you get a chance to read it. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend! :)
DeleteLooks interesting. Here is mine: https://moretoodiscover.blogspot.com/2021/03/book-spotlight-fridays-ruby-jane-and.html
ReplyDeleteIt was so good! Thanks for coming by! Hope you have a great weekend! :)
DeleteI love the excerpts! Now I am curious. Here's mine: “TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE”
ReplyDeleteI was instantly drawn in. I couldn't get enough. Thanks for visiting! Happy reading! :)
DeleteThis is going on my tbr. Thanks for the introducing me.
ReplyDeleteLauren @ Always Me
You're so welcome! It's a good one! Thanks for coming by! Have a great weekend! :)
DeleteSounds fun and I like the cover too! Happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteThe cover is gorgeous! Thanks for stopping by! Happy weekend to you too! :)
DeleteSo is it creepy like The Hazel Wood? I wasn't expecting the amount of darkness in that novel. My quotes are from Fifty Words For Rain
ReplyDeleteI haven't read The Hazel Wood yet, but this one wasn't creepy. It was a bit of a bittersweet read about the relationship between mother and daughter. It's hard to describe, but it's magical realism mixed with Norwegian folklore. It was a unique read, for sure. I'd never read anything like it before.
DeleteThanks for the visit! Happy reading! :)
That whole thing with Eli's mom and the northern lights is very intriguing. I want to know what happened...and what happens next!
ReplyDeleteThat's what initially drew me in. I had to know what happened. It was such a fascinating read. Thanks for coming by, Lark! Hope you have a great weekend! :)
DeleteThis sounds so good! I am glad you loved it. Adding it to my wish list. Have a great weekend, Ashley!
ReplyDeleteI was so happy to stumble across this one. It's great. Thanks for coming by! Hope you have a great weekend too! :)
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